Superconducting Junctions with Ferromagnetic, Antiferromagnetic or Charge-Density-Wave Interlayers

Details Superconducting Junctions with Ferromagnetic, Antiferromagnetic or Charge-Density-Wave Interlayers Superconducting Junctions with Ferromagnetic, Antiferromagnetic or Charge-Density-Wave Interlayers

2005-12-09

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0512204v1

AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 850, 889 (2006).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

LT24 conference proceeding, 2 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2354989

Spectra and spin structures of Andreev interface states and the Josephson current are investigated theoretically in junctions between clean superconductors (SC) with ordered interlayers. The Josephson current through the ferromagnet-insulator-ferromagnet interlayer can exhibit a nonmonotonic dependence on the misorientation angle. The characteristic behavior takes place if the pi state is the equilibrium state of the junction in the particular case of parallel magnetizations. We find a novel channel of quasiparticle reflection (Q reflection) from the simplest two-sublattice antiferromagnet (AF) on a bipartite lattice. As a combined effect of Andreev and Q reflections, Andreev states arise at the AF/SC interface. When the Q reflection dominates the specular one, Andreev bound states have almost zero energy on AF/ s-wave SC interfaces, whereas they lie near the edge of the continuous spectrum for AF/d-wave SC boundaries. For an s-wave SC/AF/s-wave SC junction, the bound states are found to split and carry the supercurrent. Our analytical results are based on a novel quasiclassical approach, which applies to interfaces involving itinerant antiferromagnets. Similar effects can take place on interfaces of superconductors with charge density wave materials (CDW), including the possible d-density wave state (DDW) of the cuprates.

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